Talent

# Chapter 231

If you believe that people are your most important asset, you must make talent a major focus of your company. - Masterminds

My widget-making friends get all focused on their widgets. This is understandable and to be expected. But many of their complaints are about their people. Go get better people right? Well not so fast. They have spent years trying to hire more and better people and they aren’t gaining much traction. Really really tried. And granted it is hard heavy dirty work, even though the pay is great and the bosses and structure fairly even going. If I were 40 years younger, then it would be a great place for me to work. But I can barely even move that equipment around any longer. The only muscle I can move well these days is my brain, I think, but we are definitely digressing here. Your people, your talent, that is the point here.

On the one hand you have lots of control here, you set the standards and you make the policies and you set the pay and benefits. On the other hand, you don’t have much control here, you can’t control who does and who doesn’t apply, or come your way, or are willing to move to your town, or their willingness to work hard, or fit into your team, or take initiative, or their home situations that they inadvertently bring with them to work, etc etc. Lots of things you can’t control here. But in most fields of work, there is talent there, and you do have the option of pursuing and attracting that talent, if you have the will.